It was a news to me so I checked and it's true. Since 2016 in my country ;) And it's a symbolic amount for vast majority of authors (country-wide it's around 5

It was a news to me so I checked and it's true. Since 2016 in my country ;) And it's a symbolic amount for vast majority of authors (country-wide it's around 5-5000 USD per year per author and the distribution is heavily skewed towards 5 USD). So yeah :) I think authors were fine without these 5 bucks a year. EDIT cause it might not be obvious. It's not per library. It's per country.